ISBN:
0786448172
,
9780786448173
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 196 S.
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2010
DDC:
940.53/180922
Keywords:
Bible Influence
;
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
History and criticism
;
Holocaust survivors Biography
;
History and criticism
;
Rabbinical literature History and criticism
;
Allusions
;
Bible
;
O.T
;
Genesis
;
Influence
;
Bible
;
O.T
;
Genesis
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Personal narratives
;
History and criticism
;
Holocaust survivors
;
Biography
;
History and criticism
;
Rabbinical literature
;
History and criticism
;
Allusions
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Überlebender
;
Autobiografische Erzählung
;
Bibel Genesis
;
Motivgleichheit
Abstract:
"In the life stories of Holocaust survivors, biblical imagery can be invoked to explicate the unexplainable, to make real the unreal. This text examines the role of Genesis in the autobiographies of survivors. Three main concerns converge: the literary nature of Biblical allusion, the contextual history of the Holocaust, and Midrashic considerations that arise from biblical reference"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
"In the life stories of Holocaust survivors, biblical imagery can be invoked to explicate the unexplainable, to make real the unreal. This text examines the role of Genesis in the autobiographies of survivors. Three main concerns converge: the literary nature of Biblical allusion, the contextual history of the Holocaust, and Midrashic considerations that arise from biblical reference"--Provided by publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Genesis and genocide : the Holocaust, autobiography, and Midrash -- Paradise lost, innocence lost -- God's ark and Hitler's cattle car -- The Babel of extermination -- Akeda : the perversity of silence -- Israel in Auschwitz : a malediction forbidding mourning -- Fratricide.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30616
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